Author has written 17 stories for DarkWing Duck, Escaflowne, Lord of the Rings, Titan A.E., Silmarillion, and Winnie-the-Pooh.

My most recent FFN update: updated Fangorn Wood on July 16, 2017.

I write for myself, but I'll be honest: I love reviews and I try to respond to all of them. Hit counts are fabulous too, but sometimes the site statistics don't work and then I feel like I'm uploading into the void. If you read something I wrote and liked it - or disliked it! - I would be glad to hear from you.

Orc-brat art and other eclectia. (thelauderdale .livejournal .com /366019 .html) I feel incredibly lucky to know the talented people that I do, and am intensely flattered they would take the time to draw - and in one case write about - these characters. Heaven forbid FFN allow people to include off-site links, but if you type in the parenthesized address you should be able to get to the post on my livejournal page.

I am a long-time Orc enthusiast and I have read a lot of fanfic over the years. In particular, I am aware of many stories buried here on ff.net. So in January 2010 I began compiling a list of bookmarks for Middle-earth fanfiction in which Orcs are central or play an important role. The list is in delicious. Beyond the obligatory middleearthorcfic tag, stories are also tagged by author and rating, with additional tags for canon- or movie-Orc characters as needed. So, for example, docmon's multi-chapter With Hope and Without Hope has these tags:

There are many good or excellent stories listed, while others are moderately crappy to awful. My goal is quantity over quality. I try to be thorough and provide multiple links for the same story wherever possible, in case any become defunct.

Some ff.net Orc stories of particularly good quality or interest are listed in my community Here Be Orcs.

In which Orcs come to the Hundred Acre Wood. Not all of the Orcs who captured Merry and Pippin died outside of Fangorn Forest. When some of the survivors find each other after the rout, Mauhúr is determined to bring news back to Isengard, but gets…sidetracked. CHAPTER 22 UP: Jashit holds forth.

A slow crime period drives Darkwing to obsess over a series of break-ins at local strip malls. When he dubs the unknown perpetrator with an unfortunate criminal sobriquet, Darkwing accidentally turns the Strip-Mall Mall-Stripper into an object of public interest. 1st in The Voice Quartet.

Orcs killed Maevyn's family and took her with them as a captive. It was never intended she survive. CHAPTER 27 UP: In which some clandestine conversations are had – and what's up with that forest, anyway?

Her father searches for her in vain. Her mother mourns her death. Now one young Elf's only hope of survival lies with the monster who took her, and in her own desperate will to live. A prequel to Orc-brat.

AU. Two years after Sauron won the war, his Orcs come to a Shire under Saruman's dominion. The hobbits who dwell there are caught in the middle. Told in drabbles & drabble-increments. ADDED: "Apple Time." Amelia Chubb is picking apples for the first time.

An old Orc recalls an interlude, and an interesting woman, from his not-so-younger days. This is a little slice of Mordor camp life in the time leading up to the War. Standard warnings for Orc-talk, four-letter words, and other adult content.

Preed-centric post-"Titan A. E." fanfic. After ten years' inaction I have to mark this story as "indefinite hiatus." I reserve the right to come back to it, but it looks unlikely at this point. Anyone who wants to write a continuation, please feel free - just let me know if you do!

Megavolt and The Voice have settled into a quasi-stable roommate situation when Quackerjack turns up with a ridiculous plan for a heist. Meanwhile, Gosalyn Mallard's life is not going according to plan. Today she's supposed to read her brilliant film essay in front of the whole school, and what happens? Supervillains. 4th in The Voice Quartet. (Psst! Shocking origin story inside!)

Now that the criminal formerly known as the Strip-Mall Mall-Stripper has been reinvented as The Voice, Darkwing finds himself facing a new, vocally-powered supervillain whose crimes are escalating. 2nd in The Voice Quartet.